The Opelousas courier., 1887-11-19
Questions and Answers.
Terrebonne Advocate.
Who are Reformers?

Terrebonne Advocate.
Who are Reformers?
Reformers are a small and Sc
lect body Of patriots who have
for some years been making SUI
perhuman efforts to save the
State from eternal perdition.
What plans do they suggest
to redeem the State :?
Their plans are very simple,
very innocent, and easily under
stood. Realizing that our agri-
cultural interests have been
steadily ignored-having only
increased in value fifteen and
one-half million dollars in six
years chat our manufacturing
industries have been neglected
having only increased to the OK
tent of twelve and one-half mil
lion dollars in the same period
that ayr levee system has been
destructiye-all of our most pro-
ductive lands remaining unre-
deemed and a consequent falling
off in sugar crops resulting, as is
shown by the figures: 170,315
hhds. annually under Nichols
aud only 2O2, 252 hhds. annually
under McEnery !; that our tinan-
cial system is defective-as is
shown by the fact that nnder
Nichols, State bonds were quot
ed as high as zero, while under
McEnery they are only worth
100 cents on the dollar; that our
educational status has been cape
idly retrograding-as is evidenc-
ed in this parish, where the num-
Der of well-kept schools has only
doubled within the last few years;
realizing that all these things are
so much thusly thus, they have
decided that the great mass Of
voters in the Democratic party,
who have elected officers to man
age their affairs, are not gifted
with II sufficient amount of sound
Judgment to make their selec-
tons of servants, and therefore
they, in a spirit of the most self
sacrificing patriotism, casting
aside the natural repugnance
which they have always felt for
holding office, offer themselves
as instruments to save the peo-
pie from their own folly, by TAX
ing charge of the Offices, and
thereby introduce an aroma of
saintlingss and godliness in the
administration of public affairs.
Have they made any attempts
to savesthe people in the past
Ifso, with what results?
Yes, they have inaugurated ln-
dependent movements and Or
ganized boiling conventions,
when they discovered that the
regularly elected conventions
were composed of rascals aid
ringsters, such as the Big Four
Whom by the way they have
lately deodorized and d%isinfect-
ed to such an extent that it is
said there is not the minutest
microbe of political trickery left
lurking about them), thus show
ing the consistency of their atti-
tude as virtnous guardians of the
-public veal, by appealing direct
" to the people when their in,
terests we're evidently being ig-
nored.
What are sway-back Demo.
Gratis?
Sway-back Democrats consti-
tute the very people to whom
these pathetic appeals are made
who invariably and overwhelm:
ringly reject them, and with g
blind and nnintelligible obstin'
acy refuse to be saved.
How to cut glass with a pair Of
scissors is not new, but may be Of
interest to our readers. Accord.
ing to the POTTERY Gazette
glass mayb be cut under water with
J great ease, to almost any shape
BY observing the following direc.
lions: The glass must be kept
] quite level in the water while the
t ssissors are applied; and, to avoid
risk, it is better to perform the
cutting by taking off small pieces
at the corners and along the edges
and to reduce the shape gladually
!, to that required: The softe'
{ glasses cut the best, and the scis
: sors need not be very sharp.
There is a floor walker in one Q
the large dry goods stores Of thl
city whose toes point toward eael
: other in the most friendly man
i ner.
What will you have, madam
&HH.t 4 TM.ot nrnraan ,uh.